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jacey ([personal profile] jacey) wrote2008-11-04 12:36 am
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Fifth Sentence Meme

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

The sea routes between West and East were thus stabilized before the long and difficult land route - the Silk Road - which was to be opened up more by the efforts of the Han emperors of China than by those of imperial Rome.
(From Food in History, by Reay Tannahill, London: Eyre Methuen, 1973.